ecs - Amazon ECS Container Orchestration Management
Manage Amazon ECS clusters, services, tasks, and task definitions via AWS CLI
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Updated: 2026-05-09Capabilities
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What this skill does
- list clusters
- describe clusters
- list services
- describe services
- list tasks
- describe tasks
- list task definitions
- describe task definitions
- register task definition
- update service
- scale service
- run task
- stop task
- delete service
- delete cluster
- execute command
- view service events
Inputs
- cluster name
- service name
- task definition
- task definition file
- task ARNs
- subnet ID
- security group ID
- task ID
- container name
- command
Outputs
- cluster list
- cluster details
- service list
- service details
- task list
- task details
- task definition list
- task definition details
- service events
- execution output
Requirements
- AWS CLI v2
- AWS credentials
- IAM permissions (ecs, ecr, iam:PassRole)
- VPC (for Fargate)
- EC2 instances (for EC2 launch type)
- SSM permissions (for ECS Exec)